The Fat Black Woman's Poems - 50th Anniversary Edition

Beauty is a fat black woman walking the fields pressing a breezed hibiscus to her cheek while the sun lights up her feet Nichols gives us images that stare us straight in the eye, images of joy, challenge, accusation. Her ''fat black woman'' is brash; rejoices in herself; poses awkward questions to politicians, rulers, suitors, to a white world that still turns its back. Grace Nichols writes in a language that is wonderfully vivid yet economical of the pleasures and sadnesses of memory, of loving, of ''the power to be what I am, a woman, charting my own futures''.

Product details

• Authors: GRACE NICHOLS, Grace Nichols, Nichols Grace
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9780349017402
• ISBN: 978-0-349-01740-2
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 122 mm x 196 mm x 22 mm
• Series: 50th Anniversary Edition
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Nature, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General, FICTION / Feminist